Get this; the State is about to stop funding hundreds of infrastructure projects - roads, schools, and levee repairs we desperately need. And that would put hundreds of thousands of people out of work. Nice Job guys. Your endless rhetoric over the budget gives new meaning to "blowing in the wind". We need real negotiations and real compromise - a budget that balances major cuts AND revenue increases. . .and we need it now.

And that's the gentler spot. In the other, Durst accuses lawmakers of "digging our financial grave."

Finally, a familiar face was in the Capitol on Thursday to hear Schwarzenegger's big speech: ex-Gov. Gray Davis, no stranger to mammoth budget shortfalls.

"It's deja vu," Davis told reporters after the speech, according to AP. "California has experienced feast-or-famine budgeting as long as I can recall, and (it) will go on for all eternity until the people pass a genuine rainy day fund."